Former White House press secretary Jay Carney
said on CNN that he thought that actions in combating the spread of Ebola in the United States that
"may involve flight restrictions, they may involve moving all patients to specific hospitals in the country that can handle Ebola, and I think those would be wise decisions to make.” And he's not the only Democrat to call for flight restrictions.
I think the first step, which I believe already has been taken by officials in Dallas, is to restrict the movement of potentially exposed health workers, and ban them from air travel until their incubation period has passed. I am not sure about overall flight restrictions, but if more cases pop up in different cities, then that might be necessary for the government to do so each city can handle the local outbreaks of Ebola.
Given the way the plane with the Ebola nurse was quickly decontaminated and taken out of commission shows that the CDC is worried about contamination of Ebola on common surfaces in that aircraft. If Ebola presented a low risk to travelers, then that plane would've been decontaminated and kept in commission. That clearly is not the case since the nurse was symptomatic on the flight. Now we have hundreds of people, including those on the four more flights on that plane after that nurse's initial flight, that are exposed and at risk of getting Ebola.
Call me crazy, but I would not recommend that anyone take air travel for at least a month or until this Ebola has been contained and each of the potential exposed Americans have passed their 21 day incubation period without contracting Ebola. It's better to be safe in taking precautions than to be sorry.